Sardelis: Medicare’s lessons lost

As we await the outcome of health care reform in Washington, the debate about whether or not to include a public option in the legislation will surely intensify as proponents claim it is the only way to cover the millions of uninsured while opponents allege that it is far too expensive. In political-speak this is ...

The points illustrated by Dr. Sardelis hits the proverbial home run. Outcomes are what health care is all about. To be ranked 37th in life expectancy in the world is deplorable! It is also our fault that our system is broken. Most of us do not blink at skyrocketing medical costs because we do not dig into our pockets to pay for it. We all need to be accountable for services we all will need at one time or another.

I cannot understand who we as tax payers can allow the government to spend OUR money so foolishly. Would any of us spend money for a service or product that ranked so poorly? I think not, we need to vote smarter and demand more out of those politicians who should be representing US, not special interest groups that have NO interest in what is best for US or the USA.

American would much rather watch American Idol then tune in to our current financial crisis. When asked; American know more about the contestant on AI than how the health care reform would affect them,which leads to me to believe that we have a serious problem. Although I did not vote for Obama, I did admire his vision of Health Care reform; however as Mr. Sardelis points out in his well/intelligent written, and unbias commentary…” it has come to more partisan bashing than public enlightment”. How can we bulid a better health care system when the very foundation of the system is severely cracked. Would a homeowner allow a contractor to build structure upon structure on a foundation with cracks, and in turn would that homeowner be willing to spend his money on that, simply put whatever party one belongs to would unequivocally the answer is NO! So how can Government entertain a reform would they need to restructure the programs in place. Amy Loeb in her blog points out that government spends TAX PAYERS money so foolish on a product that is ranked so poorly, she omitted to say the product inwhich is ranked so poorly is the most expensive in the world and is ranked number 37th.
Until we have a strong leader that is willing to be unbias and stand up for the uninsured, and devise a way in which this reform would not over burden the middle class tax paying population, have large corporation take accountablilty ie: Wal Mart( which denies health care access to their employees) to cover their employees and not impose an excise tax on small corporation insurance plans or tax cadillac plans. Then may be the American people will start listening and turn off American Idol.
I would also like to see LIBN have Mr. Sardelis, which really should be stated that Mr. Sardelis has his Ph.D from Columbia University in Manhattan( I researched this);
Dr. Sardelis should be a regular for LIBN.